verb

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /vɜː(r)b/
• SAMPA: /v3:(r)b/

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Noun

Singular verb

Plural verbs

1. (countable) A verb is a kind of word that usually tells about an action or a state and is the head of a sentence. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense. See verb examples.

   In the sentence My father works on a farm, the verb is works.

Verb

Plain form verb

Third-person singular verbs

Past tense verbed

Past participle verbed

Present participle verbing

1. To verb a word is to turn it into a verb.

   The word "access" used to just be a noun, but then it got verbed.

Related words

• auxiliary verb
• coverb
• defective verb
• ditransitive verb
• helping verb
• impersonal verb
• intransitive verb
• irregular verb
• lexical verb
• linking verb
• modal verb
• phrasal verb
• preverb
• regular verb
• serial verb
• stative verb
• strong verb
• transitive verb
• verbal
• verbose
• weak verb
• action
• being
• state
• state of being
• movement

Grammar (edit)
parts of speech	noun - verb - adjective - adnoun - adverb - determinative/determiner - article - participle - pronoun - conjunction - preposition - interjection
grammatical functions	head - dependent - subject - predicate - predicator - object - complement - predicative complement - predicative adjunct - predicative oblique - appositive oblique - modifier - supplement - adjunct - determiner/specifier
clauses	main clause - dependent clause - subordinate clause - relative clause